story: CHAPTER XXIII 
  
  A SLIDE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE 
  
  "My gracious, Dick! It sure is snowing some now!" 
  
  "Yes, and it is getting colder every minute." 
  
  "If we don't get out of the mountains putty quick we'll be snowed in," came from Jack Wumble. 
  
  "Did you calkerlate to git back to Dawson afore winter sot in?" inquired Ike Furner, curiously. 
  
  "Why of course!" cried Sam. 
  
  "I don't see how you are goin' to make it." 
  
  "Oh, we must get back," said Dick. "If only we could find Tom," he added, with a sigh. 
  
  It was fully an hour after they had left the campfire at the entrance to the cave of the mountain. They had walked to the chasm where they thought Tom might have had a tumble and crossed and recrossed it several times. But they had found no traces of the missing Rover boy. 
  
  "If only we knew whether he went down in that opening!" said Sam, for at least the tenth time. "Dick, do you suppose we can climb down into it?" 
  
  "Not without a rope, Sam. The sides are too steep and slippery." 
  
  Time and again they called down. But no answer came back. If Tom was down there he was either unconscious or dead. 
  
  And now it had begun to snow harder than ever. The air was so full of the white flakes that they could not see ten feet in any direction. It was a typical Alaskan snowstorm. There was a sweep to the wind that found the very marrow of their bones. 
questions: Who says it's getting cold?
questions: Is it snowing?
questions: What will happen if they stay?
questions: Who says this?
questions: What is his first name?
questions: How long did it take them to get to their destination?
questions: Where had they come from?
questions: What was there?
questions: Did they find what they were looking for?
questions: What was it?
questions: What would have been helpful to know?
questions: Who says this?
questions: Did he say it once?
questions: After how many times?
questions: What does he suggest?
questions: Can they?
questions: Says who?
questions: Why not?
questions: What do they do then?
questions: Does anyone respond?
answers: Dick
answers: My gracious, Dick
answers: yes
answers: mountains putty quick we'll be snowed in
answers: they will be snowed in
answers: et out of the mountains putty quick we'll be snowed in
answers: Wumble
answers: came from Jack Wumble
answers: Jack
answers: came from Jack Wumble
answers: an hour
answers: It was fully an hour
answers: entrance to the cave of the mountain
answers: they had left the campfire at the entrance to the cave of the mountain
answers: campfire
answers: the campfire at the entrance to the cave of the mountain
answers: no
answers: they had found no traces of the missing Rover boy
answers: Tom
answers: Tom might have had a tumble 
answers: whether he went down in the opening
answers: we knew whether he went down in that opening
answers: Sam
answers: said Sam
answers: no
answers: said Sam, for at least the tenth time
answers: at least ten
answers: at least the tenth time
answers: climb into the opening
answers: suppose we can climb down into it
answers: no
answers: Not without a rope, Sam
answers: Dick
answers: Dick, do you suppose
answers: they don't have a rope
answers: Not without a rope, Sam
answers: they called down
answers: Time and again they called down
answers: no
answers: But no answer came back